Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last, in a trailer attached to his powerful Lincoln car, keeps his own chef who feeds him Russian food. Massine made trouble in Los Angeles as a result of a soft-hearted moment in Vancouver where he adopted a stray dog gazing at him through a restaurant window. The creature became so devoted to Massine that he followed him on stage at a Los Angeles performance...
Tall, lanky David Blythe roved from hotel to boarding house, painted local worthies at about $15 or $20 per head. His artistic ability made such a marked impression on one gentleman that, passing Blythe's portrait of an acquaintance staring blankly from a store window, he bowed, doffed his hat, murmured: "Good morning." He made friends and local fame not only by his pictures and convivial eccentricities but by the reams of flowery verse he wrote for local newspapers under the pen name "Boots...
First case is against Donald N. Sweeny, onetime president of First National Bank of Detroit, and two vice presidents. Charges, varying with the bankers, include misapplication of funds and making or countenancing, "window dressing" entries in reports to the Controller of the Currency as early as 1931, concealing the actual indebtedness of their bank...
Build me a home; I am hungry For the bark of a dog in a lane, For the sight of a light in a window at night And the song of a roof in the rain...
Build me a home in a garden With my window flush with the lawn Where life overflows on the heart of a rose Where birds may wake me at dawn...